Country Pop singer Kelsea Ballerini released her first single since the release of her October 2024 albums, Patterns. The song, “I Sit In Parks” is the first single off the highly anticipated EP which will be released November 14th feautring six songs. And while the song has a catchy tempo and mic crop lyrics - there’s a deeper message being revealed.

I’m no stranger to the fact that Robert Irwin is an attractive man, but it saddens me that yet again, Hollywood has lured another innocent soul into their clutches and oversexualizes them, turning them into an object on a pedestal, becoming merely a piece of meat over the lion’s den.

And the album photoshoot just got worse from there. It crushed my soul to know that she had a loving boyfriend, she had a successful tour that lasted two years, with attendance numbers and ticket sales off the charts, and yet she still felt the need to inappropriately show off her body on the cover that sold $15 million worth of records only in pre-orders.

The book and show follow teenage Belly, who returns to Cousins Beach, where she spent summers before with her brother and their best friends, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly’s older now, and this summer, things promise to be different when Belly shows up to Cousins… pretty. Jeremiah and Conrad have both noticed, and they partake in the battle to win Belly’s heart.